brandie_shanae 's review for:

If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Jacqueline Woodson

5.0

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I am literally in tears right now. This book is just....HEART WRENCHING AND AWESOME. While I was reading this book it brought up feelings of when I was in high school and I had no type of connection with my parents. This brought back memories of when I felt so alone and was constantly seeking attention elsewhere because I was not getting it from my parents at the time. When I was feeling alone and depressed someone came into my life unexpectedly and that person today is now my fiance. He made me feel loved and appreciated and on top of that he was there just to listen to what I was going through because during that time my grandmother had died from lung cancer and I think to myself that when I lost her...I ended up with a person that loved me just as much as my grandmother did. This book speaks volumes and it pretty much is my life story in a book except the ending. I had a feeling that since it is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet I knew something was going to go down.